RA 185.6263° · Dec 25.8462° · star
1 more point to reach Common.
12 Com is a trash star. It lies about 294.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Com, shines at apparent magnitude 4.78 and has spectral type F8:p....
Its spectrum reads F8:p... — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Look for 12 Com in the constellation Com. At apparent magnitude 4.78, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, 12 Com is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
12 Com scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible and Yellow-white F-type star — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.